Emergy

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-009320",
  "term": "Emergy",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "All the available energy of one kind used up both directly and indirectly in the past to make a product or service that exists in the present. Emergy is expressed in its own unit, the emjoule, which connotes the energy (joules) used in the past, as compared with joules of energy available in the present in those products and services.",
  "references": [
    "EPA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH BRIEF Emergy and its Importance EPA/600/S-08/003 March 2008 at http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/download_files/publications/EmergyBrief08.pdf"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/emergy/"
}